The school of hard knocks (Record no. 94761)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 03252nam a2200493 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.4/1273 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Faulkner, Richard Shawn. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The school of hard knocks |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | College Station, Tex. : |
| Name of publisher | Texas A&M University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 392 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., ports. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | C.A. Brannen series ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2008. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Combat leadership in the AEF: a tale of Alvin and Charles -- "To be instructed in the dark art and mystery of managing men" -- Small-unit leadership in the Old Army -- "We find ourselves in need of a vast army of officers" -- The stateside selection and training of officers -- "By improvised and uncoordinated means" -- Officer selection and training in 1918 -- "Ninety-day wonders" and "jumped-up sergeants" -- Stateside mobilization and the challenges of small-unit leadership -- "My God! This is Kitchener's army all over again" -- Leader training in the American Expeditionary Forces in France -- "Gone blooey" -- The AEF's systems for addressing officer incompetence and inefficiency -- Noncoms, doughboys and the Sam Brownes -- The relations between the leader and the led in the US Army -- Combat physics and the ugly realities of attritional warfare -- The school of hard knocks -- Combat leadership and the attritional battlefield -- Conclusions: A tale of George and Henry -- Appendix: Organization of AEF infantry rifle companies and platoons. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Command of troops |
| Topical Term | Military morale |
| Topical Term | World War, 1914-1918 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10561954 |
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